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...front cover) THE LAST PURITAN-George Santayana -Scribner...
George Santayana, distinguished philosopher and poet who abandoned a brilliant academic career at Harvard in 1912, is now 72. The Last Puritan is a memoir in the form of a novel, ''partly a work of fiction, partly a discussion of U. S. manners and customs," partly a witty and civilized analysis of modern moral dilemmas. Long (602 pages), rambling, diffuse, The Last Puritan is the February choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Despite the fact that it is sensational only in an intellectual sense, contains none of the melodrama, none of the honeyed sentiments that make...
...note in the Yale News that a portrait is being painted of the first Eli graduate, Jacob Heminway, who received his degree in 1704. With no description of the gentleman in exis-life. Kirby's opinion that Heminway was a "bigoted, self-centered, stern old Puritan" is said to be confirmed by the fact that in later life "he cut off his tence, the artist, Donald Kirby, is "synthesizing" his features from available scraps of information regarding his only daughter without a penny because she had married an Episcopalian...
Born and half-bred an Episcopalian (he taught Sunday School, went to church every day in Lent), Upton Sinclair soon graduated into a more intense life as a puritan in Greenwich Village. Readers accustomed to his calves-foot-jelly style may raise an eyebrow when he says that he still has the cadences of the New Testament and the prayer-book running through his head, judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian...
...Thursday, December 19, the Puritan actors will present "The Social Glass." This play will be directed by W. Knox Chandler and Kenneth P. Kempton '12. An organization meeting for the selection of the cast has already been held, and actual tryouts will begin soon...